The Legacy of Milton and Rose Friedman's Free to Choose: Economic Liberalism at the Turn of the 21st Century

Proceedings of a Conference Sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
October 2003

• Complete Proceedings
• About the Contributors

Foreword

• Milton and Rose Friedman

Preface

• Robert D. McTeer, Jr.

Remarks

• Alan Greenspan

Introduction

• "Free to Choose"
  Mark A. Wynne

Session 1

• The Toughest Battleground: Schools
  Eric A. Hanushek
• The Theory and Practice of School Choice
  Paul E. Peterson

Session 2

• The Property Rights Path to Sustainable Development
  Terry L. Anderson and Laura E. Huggins
• Economic Freedom and Environmental Quality
  Richard L. Stroup

Session 3

• The Economic Burden of Taxation
  William A. Niskanen
• The Transition to Private Market Provision of Elderly Entitlements
  Liqun Liu, Andrew J. Rettenmaier, and Thomas R. Saving

Session 4

• Commerce, Culture and Diversity: Some Friedmanesque Themes in Trade and the Arts
  Tyler Cowen
• Milton and Rose Friedman’s “Free to Choose” and Its Impact in the Global Movement
  Toward Free Market Policy: 1979 –2003
  Peter J. Boettke
• Free to Choose in China
  Gregory C. Chow

Session 5

• Financial Markets and Economic Freedom
  Luigi Zingales
• Choosing Freely: The Friedmans’ Influence on Economic and Social Policy
  Allan H. Meltzer
• Friedman’s Monetary Framework: Some Lessons
  Ben S. Bernanke

Session 6

• What Have We Learned from the Measurement of Economic Freedom
  James Gwartney and Robert Lawson
• Can the Tide Turn?
  Raghuram G. Rajan
• Acknowledgments